The Resurrected Holmes: New Cases from the Notes of John H. Watson, M.D - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312140371 ISBN 13: 9780312140373

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1996

Synopsis

A new collection of adventures and mystery stories featuring the inimitable sleuth Sherlock Holmes encompasses fifteen tales written by Morgan Llywelyn, Richard Lupoff, Mike Resnick, Craig Shaw Gardner, Edward D. Hoch, and others.

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From Kirkus Reviews:

A tricky concept: a series of Sherlock Holmes pastiches based on titles of cases referred to in passing by Dr. Watson, each supposedly fleshed out by a different prominent author. Don't worry about disentangling the strands of stylistic parody: Over half the 15 original contributions get the formula exactly backwards, presenting stories supposedly plotted by Theodore Dreiser (actually Terry McGarry), Ernest Hemingway (Morgan Llywelyn), C.S. Forester (Peter Cannon), and Ellery Queen (Edward D. Hoch) in Watson's own voice. The more thoroughgoing stylistic imitations, meanwhile, of P.G. Wodehouse (Roberta Rogow), Jack Kerouac (Richard A. Lupoff), Dashiell Hammett (Carole Bugg‚), Mickey Spillane (William L. DeAndrea), and Rex Stout (veteran editor Kaye) are more conscientious than entertaining. Still, Sherlockians left unsatisfied by Kaye's anthology The Game is Afoot (1994) will be glad to have the Adventures of the Amateur Mendicant Society, the Red Leech, the Giant Rat of Sumatra, and, of course, the Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

Kaye (The Game Is Afoot; Fantastique) builds this collection on the premise that prominent authors, e.g., Theodore Dreiser, P.G. Wodehouse, Dashiell Hammett and Edgar Rice Burroughs, were hired by a reclusive collector to make sense of the case notes left by Watson in his tin dispatch box. Kaye has asked contemporary authors to write in the style of genre forbears. Thus, Paula Volsky writes the dramatic "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" in the style of Lovecraft; Mike Resnick the hilarious "Mrs. Vamberry Takes a Trip" as Thorne Smith. In most cases, the adopted style is well-crafted, with the authors adroitly capturing the feel of their models. A few, such as Kaye's own Rex Stout parody, might have better remained in the tin box. As a whole, however, the book is a stout effort, and editor Kaye deserves congratulations.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0312140371
• ISBN 13: 9780312140373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 337
• Editor: Kaye Marvin